Autos: The Lack-of-Time Strike

After settling the toilet strike at General
Motors, the United Auto Workers last week called a lack-of-time strike
against the Ford Motor Co., the first company-wide strike since the
U.A.W. organized the Ford empire 20 years ago. Negotiators had spent so
long hammering out the specifics of the new contract's economic demands
that by dawn of the deadline day there was no time left to resolve such
noneconomic issues as more union control over worker assignments and
more relief time. Both sides lost the race with the clock, and out
walked 120,000 Ford workers.